While it sat it the RV's parking spot this weekend, my truck developed a misfire. And I don't have my Forscan laptop here to try to figure out which cylinder it is. Probably just a coil, but which one....?
While it sat it the RV's parking spot this weekend, my truck developed a misfire. And I don't have my Forscan laptop here to try to figure out which cylinder it is. Probably just a coil, but which one....?
In reply to Toyman01 + Sized and :
It'd be just as fast to take it over to the shop where my craptop and cable are. But I tried the old school method of just unplugging each coil to see which one doesn't make a difference. Apparently the problem was just that one was loose because it's all good now.
eastsideTim said:Appleseed said:Humalog inulin cost $23 a vial when it was introduced in 1996. A loaded Chevy half ton pickup was $18, 630 (msrp.)
Lilly has changed nothing in regards to Humalog. Nothing. Its exactly the same. Taking inflation into account, it would cost about $43. It actually costs $330+. For the exact same thing.
To put that into perspective, imagine Chevrolet still making that exact same 1996 pickup, 4 speed trans, 200 hp V8. The same. That pickup would cost you $260, 820.
I really hope antitrust enforcement picks up sometime soon. The pharmaceutical companies shouldn't be making deals with generic manufacturers to not make drugs.
Edit: My rant - there's tons of cars in the classifieds I'd be interested in, and I can afford them right now, but don't have the space or time to deal with them.
Don't forget the insurance companies in this blame. My wife is on a medication she's been on for 8 years, after 6 years of trial and error to find one that worked. It was affordable for 6 years. Then, she goes on my insurance, and all of a sudden the price is 6x what it had been. No change in the price if you don't use insurance. It is actually cheaper without insurance, but because of complicated insurance reasons in the long run it is cheaper for us to go through the insurance. And every single berkeleying month I have to call and complain to the insurance company to prove that it is covered, at an exorbitant price. Ohhh, and I have to get ready for the new year, that one is usually a 2 hour call and I have to get the psychiatrist involved too.
I don't [think I] want universal healthcare, but this is berkeleying broken and it sucks.
Drove 3 hours to look at a car that was an absolute wreck. If they'd paid me to take it, I wouldn't have.
Secondary rant. Why are there no decent used cars listed FS in Pittsburgh? It's like a dead zone here. Tons of stuff in Akron/Canton and the metropolis in between Cleveland. I really don't want to drive there to be disappointed by E36 M3 boxes.
Tracfone doesn't have minutes cards anywhere that I can find. Trying to buy minutes on the website hangs on the popup that tells me I need to buy a VoLTE compatible phone because 3G coverage is going to get spotty.
I DGAF, shut up and take my money.
In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Yeah, umm, I think 3G is going the way of the dodo, and if tracfone just uses the major carriers' towers, they're going to lose it. My neighbor was in the same situation, had to buy a new flip phone because his ancient one was going to stop working at all.
Been trying to repair my 1975 MillerMatic 35 MIG welder.
$214.00 for a new contactor and it still does not "Pull-in" as it should.
Found the voltage select jumper and moved it to 208v instead of 230v.
In desperation did the jump it with a battery cable trick as I had a weld I had to get done so that my second shop tie down anchors will go in this week.
Found I was out of CO2 so used my small tank of C25.
Laid down the most perfect bead of my life, all for a modified shovel blade.
NickD said:NickD said:NickD said:I have a 2021 Silverado at work that I cannot seem to get rid of.
First it came in for a shudder at low speeds with 6000 miles on the clock. It felt like a torque converter clutch shudder, but it did it at parking lot speeds before the converter clutch locked up. There was a bulletin to replace the camshaft actuator magnet, so I did that.
Immediately after replacing the magnet it developed an intermittent misfire on cylinder 2 and a weird snapping noise. Contacted GM Technical Assistance Center and was told to replace all of the valve lifters on Bank 2. Waited a month for a head gasket and lifters, and replaced them, misfire was gone and engine sounded normal.
Customer took the truck and came back a month later, with 7000 miles on the truck now, saying he had a Check Engine Light and a bad misfire. It's setting misfires on all cylinders on Bank 2 and a P050D Cold Start Rough Idle code. Contact GM TAC again, and they tell me to put Bank 2 injectors in it. I wait two weeks for the injectors, replaced them yesterday, started it up and it ran fine.
Before delivering it back to the customer, my boss took it for one last test-drive, put 15 miles on it, and the Check Engine Light came back on. Now it has a P0430 Catalyst System Efficiency - Bank 2 code and requires a catalytic converter.
The guy hasn't owned the truck a year and has had one oil change done, and it's spent two months at our shop total.
This damn truck is going to drive me to drink. I put the converters in it on Friday. Afterwards I took it for a 15 mile test drive, truck ran fine, CEL stayed off. Before giving it back to the customer, my boss put another 30 miles on it just to be sure. Again, ran just fine, no misfires or weird behavior or CEL. I took off early Friday to go pick up my tux for a friend's wedding. Come in this morning and the repair order for this truck is back on my toolbox. Customer showed up Friday, drove it three miles and came back. Misfires on cylinders #4 and #8.
The saga of this piece of E36 M3 continues. I've done cranking compression tests, relative compression tests, removed the valvesprings for cylinders 4 and 8 and inspected them, all at TAC's behest. Then out of the blue it starts running fine again. So my boss calls our regional rep and puts in a request for a Field Service Engineer. FSEs are experienced, highly-trained techs who travel around a set region and help with the tough cases. We have two, Dave and Dan, who we usually see, but they told us this time it would be a guy named Gus, who we've never seen before.
- First, he shows up late. And not ten minutes late, like two and a half hours late.
- We go get in the truck and he asked me to pull over by his vehicle so he could grab his laptop, then goes "I'm not sure which one is mine. I don't know what I drove here." Interesting. We drive the truck and its running normally, of course.
- Pull in the shop and he has to go get stuff out of his car and goes "Which side of the shop did I park on?"
- He thought Bank 2 was on the driver's side of the truck and was looking at the wrong side of the engine.
- He was trying to test terminal tension on a couple pins at the ECM connector and proclaimed he found the issue, that the wires were missing from those cavities (which wouldn't make sense because the truck would never run right, not have an intermittent misfire) and I had to point out he was looking at the connector upside-down.
- He wanted to unhook an injector and check for injector voltage with it running, which I pointed out isn't possible because the injectors are under the intake manifold. He goes "Oh, when did they do that?" Umm, 2014.
- Admits he hasn't been a service technician in 4 years
- Wanted to show me how to check injector voltage with an oscilloscope instead of a multimeter, so he futzes around for an hour and a half, can't get it to work, goes "Well, I don't really know how to do this but this is how you would do it." Calls someone and has them walk him through it and still can't get it to work and goes "Well, that's how you would do it, if it worked." Suuuure.
- Then starts packing his stuff up and pretty much tells me to put an ECM in it as he walks out the door.
This engineer is the gift that keeps on giving too. He e-mailed my boss whining that I didn't have anything for him to stand on to work on the truck. Well, I'm 6'3", so yeah, I don't have a stepstool handy. My boss read the e-mail, started laughing, and then said "He's disappointed he didn't have anything to stand on, I'm disappointed he was a berkeleying idiot. I guess we're even."
I asked for a ballpark price. $1500-20,000 is NOT a ballpark price, that's a berkeleying city block price
In reply to RevRico :
I've had to give out estimates like that before. Typically it's because there are too many unknowns in the equation. For example, "Our customer has a lot of image files that they want to store. They use them for [excruciating but useless details here]. They're in regular Windows file shares today. How much will it cost to put it on utility storage?"
"Well," asks I. "How much capacity are we talking about here?"
"It's probably in the terabytes."
"Given that we charge on a per-GiB basis, I need to know how much capacity there is."
"Well, we've already had the initial meeting with the customer, so we can't go back with more questions now. They just want a ballpark price".
"Well, we can tell them it will be x cents per GiB and they can extrapolate from there."
"No, we need to give them an all-in estimate".
"Somewhere between $100 and $624,500 a month, then."
Apparently the time allotted between "I have diagnosed the water leak but I'll still drive it while I gather information and parts" and "now I have to stop on the side of the road randomly to add water" is roughly one week. The UV dye did the job, I knew exactly which water pipe is gushing. Unfortunately it now looks like I ran a Xenomorph through the radiator fan due to all the glowing green fluid running down the engine block and undertray.
In reply to wae :
In situations like that I can definitely understand. I'm looking for a ballpark price to add a heat pump to my existing central air system, so I can cut down on oil usage until it gets really cold.
"So you want to add central air with a heat pump?" Already have central air, is my AC system capable of an add-on pump?
"Are there already ducts for the AC?" What part of "existing system" don't you understand?
"Why do you want a heat pump, they're only good until it hits freezing?" Because fuel oil is pushing $3/gallon with no relief in sight and I'm NOT paying $5k to heat my home for the winter, I can't afford it, and LIHEAP only grants $1500 if approved.
At this rate I'm going to wind up learning HVAC against my will because people don't want to listen to give me an idea of what needs done.
eastsideTim said:In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :
Yeah, umm, I think 3G is going the way of the dodo, and if tracfone just uses the major carriers' towers, they're going to lose it. My neighbor was in the same situation, had to buy a new flip phone because his ancient one was going to stop working at all.
There is a company coming out with a slider-keyboard phone in two months for the past couple years.
Sliding QWERTY with buttons is mandatory. I don't care if it IS $1200. Or £1200, might have been. Must have buttons, touch keyboards are hard enough to use with a 10" tablet. Until they finally release that unit, I will keep slogging with the old one.
After watching the new Dune movie (at home, because The Dancer doesn't have any interest in it that I can tell and I'm not going to see it in the theater by myself- and thankfully we have a decent-sized flatscreen and a LARGE subwoofer) last week, I decided to re-read the source book and finished it midday yesterday. The Dancer decided that she wanted to watch a movie last night- and somehow decided that she wanted to watch IT (part 1). So, yeah- didn't have a fun time getting to sleep last night with everything from Dune and IT kicking around in my brain. Needless to say when my alarm went off to get up and go swim this morning I reset it for an hour later to try and get at least a little bit more sleep.
The valve on my Miata that I deemed as probably being OK after being touched by a piston when a rod bearing spun was apparently not OK. The car ran great during a test session, developed a miss at idle after qualifying, picked up a dead skip in the first race and added expensive noises to the fun during the second race.
In reply to RevRico :
We've got a system like that (air to air heat pumps to take care of a/c and heating down to about 35F, with oil burners kicking in below that). Makes a massive difference compared to the cost of running the oil burners on their own for heat. Definitely recommended.
In our case, the HVAC company replaced the condensers and IIRC the heat exchangers in the ducting, basically as if they were replacing the a/c system. That said, these guys were already familiar with our existing system and had basically confirmed my diagnosis that it was a few weeks away from failure.
The conversation you were having very much reminded me of my attempt to get a heat pump hot water heater installed. You'd think I called the plumber asking to install a Star Trek transporter instead.
In reply to BoxheadTim :
And guess what, I just had the annual service done on our HVAC system. The system hadn't really been maintained that well (or at all) by the PO, which is why we got heat pumps a couple of years ago as the old a/c units were about to throw in the towel. The heat pumps are in great shape and got a thumbs up.
The oil furnaces - well, the verdict on the furnaces was "one's getting really bad, and the other one isn't far behind". Asking if it would potentially make it another winter was met with that look. So I guess for my birthday at the end of the week, I'm buying the house at least one new furnace. On top of having to get my wife another SUV.
Hey ho, it's only money, but still, I could've done without that hit to the savings.
Cold and rainy night. Can't we once have the furnaces at work checked out in September to see if they work?
Two months after attempting a high speed run (85 mph) on the vacant Illinois tollway in our 3 year old, 65,000 mile work Ford Box truck where I pointed out and complained later about the cost cutting and that the front tires are showing threads through the baldness we now have more threads showing. We just waiting to blow out a tire?
Another insurance rant: My 2022 enrollment closes on November 1. My wife's opens on November 1. So far, her information has not been published.
How the berkeley are we supposed to figure out what plan(s) we're going to go with if we can''t see them both????
THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN
barefootskater (Shaun) said:mtn said:THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED!!!
FTFY
Rigged, broken, whatever. It is berkeleying me over and I'm tired of it.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:Tracfone doesn't have minutes cards anywhere that I can find. Trying to buy minutes on the website hangs on the popup that tells me I need to buy a VoLTE compatible phone because 3G coverage is going to get spotty.
I DGAF, shut up and take my money.
I had the same problem, my phone is 5 years old and it still works, which is a miracle for me but I'll have to upgrade soon.
The work around I found is either don't log into your account or use the text system
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